[Endangered-languages-l] Workshop: Documentation and Analysis of Multimodal Data (DAMD 2014)

[Vera Ferreira]

Please pass on to interested parties.**

*Workshop “Documentation and Analysis of Multimodal Data” (DAMD 2015)***

CIDLeS invites students and researchers in linguistics and related 
fields to participate in the workshop on “Documentation and Analysis of 
Multimodal Data”. The workshop will take place from Friday, April 24 to 
Saturday, April 25 2015 in Alcanena (Portugal).

Workshop leader: Dr Mandana Seyfeddinipur, Endangered Languages 
Documentation Programme, SOAS

Deadline for registration: *March 31, 2015*

*Date and venue***

April 24 – 25, 2015 | Hotel Eurosol, Alcanena (Portugal)

Website: http://www.cidles.eu/events/workshop/

*About the Workshop*

Language use is fundamentally multimodal. When we speak point to places, 
we nod to signal our understanding and we outline our thought with our 
hands. Moreover, we coordinate our actions with our conversational 
partners. The way we talk, the words we use, the information we include 
depends on the common ground we share with our interlocutors and 
different social and contextual dimensions. This complexity of language 
use is best captured with video. Language documentation projects as well 
as any linguistic research project investigating dimensions of 
conversational language use should record video. However, video training 
is often limited to the technicalities of how to use a video camera and 
microphones but does not provide a theoretical framework for the 
features of language use. What is missing is an understanding of the 
social, linguistic and cognitive foundation of language use so that it 
becomes clear what needs to be captured how.

In this workshop we will address these topics and participants will 
learn about the theoretical foundation of language use as a joint 
activity. Focusing on manual gesture, participants will learn how 
gesture data play an important role in understanding the fundamentally 
multimodal nature of language use. In the second part we will provide 
detailed guidelines of how to video record and this will be trained with 
hands on practice. Participants will collect natural language use data 
of different types and learn how to use video equipment. In the third 
part of the workshop the recordings will be reviewed and discussed and 
guidelines for improvements will be given. In a fourth part participants 
will be introduced to how to use ELAN for gesture annotation and analysis.

The number of participants is limited to 30.

*Fee & Registration*

The workshop costs 260 Euro. The fee includes accommodation in shared 
rooms (2 people) at Hotel Eurosol (Alcanena, Portugal) from April 23 to 
April 26, breakfast, lunches and coffee breaks during the workshop and 
workshop materials. Individual rooms are also available by payment of an 
extra charge (45€).

The deadline for registration and fee payment is *March 31*!

Registration: http://www.cidles.eu/events/workshop/registration/

For more information, please contactinfo at cidles.eu <mailto:info at cidles.eu>

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Vera Ferreira
Centro Interdisciplinar de Documentação Linguística e Social / Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and Language Documentation
Rua do Remexido, Loja 15
2395-174 Minde
Portugal

Tel.: +351249849123
Email: vferreira at cidles.eu
Web: http://www.cidles.eu

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